A new London Nightscape...
...from a photographer's notebook
A November afternoon in the classical beauty and serenity
of the Italian Gardens in
London’s Kensington Gardens had
given way to twilight, as I stayed on to photograph the twinkling lights on the
bridge over The Long Water.
At this time of year, twilight can rather quickly give way to full dark, and that’s what was happening as I left the park through the Marlborough Gate, just across Bayswater Road from Lancaster Gate Tube Station.
I love London.
Even the streets are courteous, with
bold lettering on the pavement telling us which way to look before crossing. I
don’t actually know how long that’s been going on. I do remember almost coming
out second best in a confrontation with a very large lorry on a busy downtown London
street in 1984. Perhaps that
street did come with a warning message and I was looking upward rather than at
what my feet were about to do.
Or maybe they just got tired of cleaning up body parts
of Yanks and others whose inborn inclination is to look the “wrong” way when
crossing the street. In any case, in the last few years of visiting London,
I’ve been much more aware of these useful messages just ahead of my shoes.
Read more »Labels: Autumn leaves, Bayswater Road, bicycle, Kensington Gardens, light trails, London, Nightscapes by Steve Ember
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